Here is the way it works: The cylinder records may be ... generally brown wax cylinders from 1888 through the early 1900's. Unlike celluloid cylinders such as Edison's Blue Amberols (which will ...

And you spoke - well, you really had to shout into a mouthpiece, and it could record ... 10 years after Edison had first done the tinfoil phonograph, by then recording on hard wax cylinders ...